# Rick Cobb

> Staff Software Engineer at Included Health

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rickcobb

Experienced Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Strong software professional skilled in Ruby on Rails, Data Management, Ruby, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP).

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Included Health
Jan 2021 – Present
Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand are now Included Health. We’re on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Grand Rounds, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco
Wrangling ruote where it's never railed before, filling hot spark pipelines, putting 'some' extra 'e' into AWS, and adding a touch of grey-and-torn-out to the occasional wild-haired idea that comes along.

### Chief Architect @ CloudCrowd
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
CloudCrowd is the name of Servio's Crowd -- and the Facebook application we use to make great content. From a cloud computing crowds to crowds computing loud -- I suppose it's a natural progression.

### Chief Architect @ Servio
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Ruby-based web application development, with a strong dose of Javascript & D3 for metrics, and using MongoDB and MySQL to provide great crowd-sourced content.

### Manager, Availability & Automation @ Quantcast
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
I lead a small team making sure our clusters compute, our pixels percolate, our storage doesn't leak, and our web sites don't spin out of control

### System Architect @ KnowNow, Inc
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 | Sunnyvale

### Senior Product Manager @ Dorado Software
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | Folsom, CA
Set direction for Java-based network management system products. Got JINI-fied.

### Senior Director @ Enron Broadband Switching Systems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Pleasanton, CA
Developed SONET management software for broadband trading after acquisition of WarpSpeed by Enron

### Vice President, Software @ WarpSpeed Communications
Jan 1997 – Jan 2000 | Pleasanton, CA
Led development of high-performance switched IP wide area networking software, with a strong emphasis on desktop videoconferencing.  Also directed development of the underlying video conferencing hardware and access routers.

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Optivision
Jan 1995 – Jan 1997
Developed high-performance, high-quality MPEG2 over TCP/IP & multicast UDP/IP solutions for Windows NT 3.51 and DOS; prepared code for port to VxWorks.

### Vice President, Software @ Communications Broadband Multimedia
Jan 1992 – Jan 1995
Built video-conferencing and video-on-demand network and applications for a world that wasn't ready yet.

### Director, Strategic Projects @ Independence Technologies, Inc
Jan 1988 – Jan 1992

### Member of Technical Staff @ COSI
Jan 1983 – Jan 1986


## Education
### MS in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rick-cobb-1a313
- Portfolio: http://cobbr2.wordpress.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12